Rare Faith Blog

By Matthew Piling

I grew up in farm country in Alberta, Canada. We weren’t farmers ourselves, but I spent enough time around farming to absorb some of its core lessons. One of the most important take...

By Matthew Piling

I’ve spent years thinking about writing a book or two. I’ve been blessed with some unique ideas and insights that I believe could really help people. I love the process of sorting t...

By Matthew Piling

About four minutes into The Hunger Games: Mockingjay (Part 1), there’s a moment that really stuck with me. Katniss is in an elevator with Commander Boggs. As they talk about everyth...

By Matthew Piling

I’m a chronic non-finisher—or maybe a recovering one. Whatever label you want to use, I’ve started plenty of projects and ventures with excitement and energy, only to let them fizzl...

By Wayne Hafner

Like so many of you, I’ve spent most of my adult life wrestling with finances. Whether it was wondering how I’d make the next car or house payment, or nervously checking caller ID to ...

If someone ever asks me what it’s like to achieve a big goal or dream (a.k.a. catch a rabbit), I’ll just smile and say, “It feels like flying!”

For some, that means it's exhilarating—like the woman s...

By Carol Colvin

I’ve been dreaming of the perfect website since 2012, when I first attended SimplyHealed training with energy healing guru Carolyn Cooper. I wanted to become a certified SimplyHealed ...

By Carol Colvin

You’ve spent years working hard and taking care of your family. You earn a decent living and try to be frugal—yet somehow, you’re drowning in debt and have no savings to show for all ...

By Beckie Dragon

I’ve never really trusted God’s timing.

Somewhere deep down, I believed that if I just begged hard enough, long enough, He’d eventually see things my way. I know that sounds terribl...

By Beckie Dragon

The Law of Perpetual Transmutation was completely foreign to me. I never set goals. I never dreamed. Deep down, I believed that other people could do this or that… be this or that… b...

By Judy Young

This quote from Wayne Dyer popped up in my Facebook memories today, so I made it look pretty and reposted it.

Funny enough, it felt perfectly in line with last night’s Weekly Forum dis...

By Beckie Dragon

I started doing the assignments for Facilitator Training back in May 2020. I got one article written but then felt like I couldn’t really write about the other laws without experienc...

By Carol Colvin

The church I attend was, for many years, a strong supporter of the Boy Scouts of America. Every year during the “Friends of Scouting” fundraising drive, the scout leaders in our congr...

By Beckie Dragon

“Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.” – James Allen

That quote really makes me stop and reflect.

When I think about who I was—not just what I want...

By Beckie Dragon

I worked at the LDS Church Office Building doing family Indexing. Typing the information in front of me was mostly mindless work, but over the course of two weeks, I kept hearing a p...

By Carol Colvin

I’ve been teaching others how to create what they want for years now. I always remind them to focus on what they want and why they want it—and to leave the how and the when up to a hi...

By Carol Colvin

Every September, I pull out my autumn bin and start decorating. Come October, I layer in the Halloween touches. By November, Halloween makes its exit and in comes the Thanksgiving dec...

By Beckie Dragon

Dear Reader,

I want to help you overcome the challenge of negative thinking and the belief that nothing good can come into your life. I know how hard it is to dream when you’re afra...